Healthcare in Venezuela

Monday, November 5, 2012

In many countries, like Venezuela, the people there do not have the money to pay for medical treatment if they're sick. This leaves more of a problem than not having the resources at all because what good is it to have them if the people cannot use them. Imagine the state of the country if it's that underdeveloped. People don't live in mansions and drive luxurious cars they have small houses some even made of mud and walk most of the places they need to go. In a country where there aren't any ways to make a good living to pay for your own healthcare there should be some way to get treatments if something is wrong. Yes, it's true, in the United States its very obvious that people abuse the privilege but, people in the United States have more opportunities to work than people in Venezuela and other third world countries. There have been cases of people who have died because they did not go and try and get help or medication because they knew they couldn't afford it. This should not even be an option. If someone is sick they deserve treatment and medication. Reforms were put into effect in Venezuela to improve the amount of care. This was probably one of the best things that could have happened in Venezuela. The people living there now have a place to go for treatment. There now should be no reason why a sick person should just die without trying to get help now that they are trying to make it available to them.

Summary:The article
explains how they trained physicians in Venezuela.Barrio Adentro was a program set up to assure
primary health care to the population of an estimated 26 million people.They established a program to train doctors
for public service as well as recruiting students who had no opportunity to
receive experience in their University.

Analysis: This source is credible because it was written by a medical doctor. He was apart of the reform so it is first hand information. The source was also a journal entry and it was found on google scholar so it's more reliable than a website. It's relevant to this blog post because it talks about the people who need healthcare and how they have established a reform to help. This also relates because it shows that they are trying to help the people that can't afford healthcare by giving them places to come to get treatment.

When people are trying to decide where to live they think
about many different factors.Is this
place going to be a good place to raise a family? Am I going to be able to find
a job to support myself or my family? Is it within a friendly environment? Are there
resources available to take care of me and my family? Many things impact
whether people live in a certain country, state, town etc. Healthcare is
definitely one of those factors. If a country does not have the resources to
take care of their citizens when they get sick then the population is going to
suffer. Healthcare is a huge part of a population.People get sick everyday and if there aren’t
any ways to take care of them then people are not going to want to live there. There’s
more too it though than just having the resources available.As a citizen you have to think about how the government
in that population handles there healthcare system.The treatments, medicines, doctors etc. need
to be not only there but, accessible.

Summary: This
talks in detail about the need for primary health care.It also talks about what is included in
primary health care.

Analysis:
This source seems very credible because it had a lot of statistics and it was a
speech given at a conference for primary healthcare. This source helped because
it supported my opinion about healthcare being an important factor in a
country. It also gives many details as to why primary healthcare is important.It’s even more reliable because it talks
about multiple countries.

Guessing that many other third world countries are in the
same shape as Venezuela, it’s okay to assume that they are lacking necessary
medical resources as well. No country wants to be known as the worst place to
reside; similar to people and how no person wants to be seen on their worst
days. If another underdeveloped country sees Venezuela growing it’s very likely
that they will want to do the same. If they see that Venezuela is getting help
from the United States and it’s actually working and making their country a
better place for their citizens to live then why wouldn’t they try and get the
same help for their people? Many of the countries around Venezuela were having
the same issues.They want to help their
people but they do not have the money to provide the resources or care for
them.Neighboring countries like
Colombia and Guyana were also having the same healthcare issues.Research shows that they have made this
better.Of course the level of treatment
and available antibiotics are not the same as if you were in the United States
but for an underdeveloped country they are doing better than they were in the
early 1900’s.That’s not to say that
they are trying to develop because they see Venezuela developing and want to be
better than them. It shows that since they see a country of similar caliber
doing better they know they can do better as well; that the resources to be
able to help their people are attainable.

Summary;
This article was focused on the state of healthcare in the past and how it has
changed recently in Colombia. They now have healthcare that is accessible to
all people.It demonstrates how unhappy
the people that live in Colombia are with the current healthcare system.

Analysis: As far as I can tell the source is
credible.It seems to have good factual
information.It’s more of an article
written for a newspaper in Colombia.The
article was translated to English but it was originally written in Spanish so I
would imagine it was written by someone who was experiencing it.The author also was Hispanic.

Does the United States’ involvement in Venezuela impact the
United States? Of course it does.Everything that the United States decides to be involved in will cause
the country to form an opinion on it.Some people may believe that we shouldn’t be helping them but, then
others probably think that it’s a good thing that were doing by helping them.
The United States is very fortunate as far as medical advancements and
resources. It’s our job to share that with other countries that are in need.
How would it make us look if we had a ton of resources, saw a country in need,
and didn’t help them? Greedy! We would look greedy. The United States has
always been the country that gets involved with everything.This is good and bad.When you think of things like war, it would
probably be better to not get involved in every small issue that happens in
Iraq, or Afghanistan. This puts our country and people in danger when it’s not
necessary.If there is an issue
somewhere that doesn’t pose a threat to our country or its citizens then we absolutely
should do our best to help better that issue. The United States sending doctors
to Venezuela to help improve their healthcare is not causing any sort of
threat. In fact since the United States is helping Venezuela out so much now
with their healthcare if we ever need a favor it’s very likely that they will
return the favor.

Gutierrez, M. "Venezuela." The
New York Times. The New York Times Company, 07 2012. Web. 4 Nov 2012.
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/venezuela/index.html>.

Summary:
This article focuses on the United States and their involvement with Venezuela
recently.It gives information on the
deals made between Cuba, Venezuela, and The United States in the past.It also discusses Obama’s foreign policy.

Analysis:
This source is credible because it is on the New York Times website. That is a
popular newspaper.Most newspapers are
reliable even though they can be biased. There are other current events about
Venezuela on their website.This source gives
good insight to what the United States got out of helping Venezuela.It also showed how Venezuela benefited from
the United States help as well as the help that Cuba gave as well.

Monday, October 22, 2012

When looking at the United States we have access to a lot of
different resources that may not be available worldwide. Let’s just say the
United States is very privileged.For
example, Venezuela is not as developed of a country as the United States.Many aspects of their culture are different
than ours but, let’s focus in on one thing, healthcare.They do not have as much access to treatment,
preventative medicine, doctors, etc. Thinking of a country like this we
automatically assume that the countries around them are going to have similar
characteristics. When thinking of third world or underdeveloped countries the
words that seem to come to mind are underprivileged and poor.Do people actually know for a fact that is
true or do they just infer that other third world countries share these similar
traits because of how the United States portrays them? When looking at
Venezuela, it’s evident that they do not have the resources to provide the care
that their citizens need when it comes to healthcare. They lack doctors with up
to date medical knowledge, antibiotics and medicine, and medical
facilities.When the United States realizes
this does it makes them think that all other third world countries are like
this as well? Yes, we tend to stereotype groups, well in this case countries,
by what they have or what they are like.It’s human instinct. It’s a lot easier to say that all under developed
countries lack access to resources and are unable to give their citizens the
treatment and attention they need when it comes to healthcare rather than
singling out each country individually.When looking at this issue from this standpoint it is easy to see that
Venezuela’s healthcare system has set a precedent for other countries that are
similar to it. Even though we all know that every under developed country does
not suffer from the same issues within their society it is simple to assume
that since they all lack similar resources they are struggling with a majority of
the same problems.

Summary:
This article talks about Venezuela’s current healthcare and how it affects the
people who live there. It also proposes a new healthcare reform to improve
Venezuela’s healthcare system.

Analysis: This source is credible because it has many
references to show where she got the information from that she wrote the
article with.People also commented on
it and the comments were very positive and in agreement towards what she was
saying. This source gave information to support that Venezuela’s healthcare
condition was not in a good state.Since
blog post number one was about Venezuela’s lack of healthcare it’s important to
give evidence that they actually did lack resources.